FM -- Introduction -- Part I: Mathematical background -- Dynamical systems -- An example of nonlinear dynamical system: The Logistic Map -- Bifurcations -- From local bifurcations to global dynamics: Hopf systems from the applied perspective -- Chaos -- Embedding and mutual information -- Part...

This interdisciplinary book argues that the economy has an underlying non-linear structure and that business cycles are endogenous, which allows a greater explanatory power with respect to the traditional assumption that dynamics are stochastic and shocks are exogenous. The first part of this...